How Doctors Can Stop The Opioid Crisis At Its Source: Quit Overprescribing

Opinion contributor, USA Today: Opinion
Fri, 08/04/2017 - 12:15am

I was taught to give every surgical patient up to 90 opioid tablets on discharge. Then my father recovered from an operation with one ibuprofen tablet.

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